Trump is making another attempt to dismantle government AI regulations

The Trump administration on Friday unveiled its new legislative blueprint for regulating artificial intelligence, and the seven-point plan includes a clear message: The federal government must avoid many AI regulations beyond a set of child safety rules, and it must prevent states from tampering with the “National Strategy to Achieve Global AI Dominance.”

the He plans Congress is advised to protect minors who use AI services with greater safeguards and take measures to try to prevent rising electricity costs due to AI infrastructure. It encourages “youth development and skills training” to enhance familiarity with AI tools, without elaborating further. But she suggests a wait-and-see approach to whether training AI models on copyrighted material without permission is legal, and maintains a long-standing Republican campaign to limit states’ ability to enact their own AI laws.

However, the entire document and all of its provisions will take effect only if Congress adopts it into legislation and passes it into law.

The Trump administration’s blueprint encourages the passage of laws similar to the Take It Down Act — which was signed into law in May 2025 and prohibits “intimate visual depictions” generated by AI without consent, requiring certain platforms to quickly remove it. The document also serves as a pro-age check, proposing that Congress establish commercially reasonable privacy protection and age assurance requirements (such as parental certification) for AI platforms and services that minors are likely to access. Determining age is controversial From a privacy point of view And he has a lot of Possible effects of monitoring. It suggests other child protection measures such as limiting the ability of AI models to train on minors’ data and limiting targeted advertising based on their data. (The document does not seek to ban these practices with respect to children’s data, only to limit them.) At the same time, it states that Congress “should avoid setting vague standards about permissible content, or open-ended liability, that could lead to excessive litigation.”

In the age of deepfakes, when videos created by artificial intelligence appear More real than ever A fake video of a politician can go viral instantly Global conspiracy theoriesThe new policy outline seeks to “consider creating a federal framework to protect individuals from the unauthorized distribution or commercial use of artificial intelligence-generated digital replicas of their voices, likenesses, or other recognizable characteristics.” (This might mean finally creating a Federal similarity law.) But it also states that lawmakers must make “clear exceptions” for parody, news reporting, satire, and other First Amendment-protected uses.

The scheme also discourages Congress from taking up AI copyright issues. “Although the Administration believes that training AI models on copyrighted material does not violate copyright laws, it acknowledges that there are arguments to the contrary and therefore supports allowing the courts to resolve this issue,” the decision said. “Congress should not take any actions that would influence the judiciary’s determination of whether training on copyrighted materials constitutes fair use.”

In another section, the blueprint raises concerns about large-scale scams and fraud that are increasingly powered by AI, stating that Congress should “strengthen existing law enforcement efforts to combat AI-powered fraud and fraud targeting vulnerable populations such as seniors,” though it did not provide additional details.

The Trump administration has continued to lean toward the pro-federal, anti-state approach to AI regulation that it has been promoting (so far unsuccessfully). almost year. The plan says Congress should “preempt state AI laws that impose undue burdens” and avoid “fifty conflicting standards” on companies, adding that “states should not be allowed to regulate AI development, because it is an inherently shared phenomenon among states and has major foreign policy and national security implications.” Other legal protections for AI companies have also been included, such as the idea that states should not be allowed to “punish AI developers for unlawful third-party conduct related to their models.” But in the children’s privacy section, the document allows states some limited room to maneuver, noting that Congress should not prevent states from “enforcing their own generally applicable laws that protect children, such as bans on child sexual abuse material, even when such material is generated by artificial intelligence.” The allowance comes after numerous figures from both parties expressed concern about the repeal of local child safety laws, including Nearly 40 public defenders US states and territories.

The overall goal, as in previous Trump administration proposals, is to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence. “The United States should lead the world in AI by removing barriers to innovation (and) accelerating the deployment of AI applications across sectors,” the document states, adding that Congress should find ways to make federal datasets available to AI companies and academics in “AI-ready formats for use in training AI models and systems.” It did not specify what types of federal datasets it sought to make publicly available for AI training. The plan also definitively answers a long-standing question in AI regulation — whether there should be a single federal body responsible for regulating AI or whether AI regulation should be left to each sector — and says that Congress “should not create any new federal rule-making body to regulate AI”; Instead, it says it will “support the development and deployment of sector-specific AI applications through existing regulatory bodies with specialist expertise.”

President Trump signed an executive order last July Seeks to prevent ‘woke AI’ By prohibiting government agencies from using models that “integrate” topics such as systemic racism. he Recently ordered all agencies ‘Radical Left AI Company’ Anthropic Blacklisted for Restricting Military Use of Its Models, Anthropic Alleges Violates your First Amendment rights. At the same time, the blueprint states that the government “must defend freedom of expression and First Amendment protections, while preventing the use of artificial intelligence systems to silence or censor lawful political expression or dissent.” It goes further to say that Congress should explicitly prohibit the government from “coercing” AI providers “to block, coerce, or change content based on partisan or ideological agendas” — and that if government agencies censor expression on AI platforms or dictate the information they provide, Congress should provide a way for Americans to “seek redress.”

Last month, we saw the first A bipartisan effort To address higher utility bills in communities with nearby data centers, the new AI policy framework appears to address these concerns on both sides of the aisle, saying Congress must find ways to ensure that “residential ratepayers do not face increased electricity costs as a result of the construction and operation of a new AI data center.” But she says Congress should streamline federal permitting to build and operate data centers, making it easier for AI companies to “develop or purchase on-site and behind-the-meter power generation” — meaning data center construction should still proceed at full speed, but community members shouldn’t have to literally pay the price on their monthly bills.